WD - My Cloud PR4100 24TB 4-Bay External Network Storage (NAS) - Black

Works Great with PLEX Media Server if you use it for Movies and TV shows its like having your own personal Netflix. Question for WD why did you stop making these or are you working on a newer model PLEASE! Right now I have (4) PR2100's and I really want / need a PR4100 sell me one please WD.

I have found buying the 4 drives and installing them in the enclosure to be very fast and easy. Hard to get it wrong and it allows buying better quality drives at a much cheaper price than the bundled ones. The drive is extraordinarily stable and the RAID 5 configuration maximizes space. I have used the USB backup and PLEX apps and found them to be useful and work well. My next foray will be into the iTunes app which will definitely make access to my iTunes library simpler and not dependent on the app being open in the computer. Great media center

This is the third WD NAS I have purchased. The first being an EX4, which I never felt was adequate, but it worked well enough over eight years ago. I then, four years later, purchased a PR4100 and relegated the EX4 to my backup to my PR4100. Well, the EX4 was no longer serviceable, and basically quit working, so I bought this PR4100 to replace the EX4. These PR 4100's work so much better than the EX4 ever did. And while I put off upgrading to WD OS-5 for as long as possible, to allow WD to work out the bugs, I did upgrade about six months ago, and it seems quite stable and user friendly. I keep little to no files on my computer, but run the primary NAS as my C Drive in RAID 10, and then do a synchronized back up that NAS onto a second NAS, also in RAID 10. My data isn't worth the storage devices I have on them, but there should be a slim chance that I should ever loose what I have using this arrangement. WD is THE BEST for helping resolve any problems I have ever had with any of these NAS units, and I use Red Drives in the bays, and knock on wood, they have held up great so far. I don't use PLEX or any other APPs other than my backup APP, so I cannot give you any information on that, but I do regularly use the remote APP on my iPhone/iPad, and OS-5 and the newest APP work quite well, with few failures to connect, which was very common on OS-3 with the older APP.

SO on April 15 2022 new firmware was sent. BUT all users were lost along with getting data Had to create logins a real pain and to make matters worse a drive died . I received lots of emails regarding update but they said it would work locally only. No mention of having to recreate users etc.

If setup and overall operational simplicity is what you are after, then the My Cloud Pro Series PR4100 is for you. It works like a dream and updates automatically. I am extremely pleased with the purchase.